| Lusovenator | |
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| Skeletal reconstruction ofLusovenator | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Carcharodontosauria |
| Genus: | †Lusovenator Malafaiaet al., 2020 |
| Type species | |
| †Lusovenator santosi Malafaiaet al., 2020 | |
Lusovenator (meaning "Portuguese hunter") is a genus ofcarcharodontosauriantheropoddinosaur, from theLate Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Praia de Amoreira Porto-Novo Member and the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Tithonian-Berriasian) Assenta Member of theLourinhã Formation in present-dayPortugal. It includes one species,Lusovenator santosi.[1]
Theholotype was discovered during the 1980s by José Joaquim dos Santos and he donated his fossil collection to the Sociedade de História Natural around thirty years later. The unnamed holotype was described and placed in theAllosauroidea in 2017.[2] The neotype was described in 2019 and both specimens were placed withinCarcharodontosauria.[3] The speciesLusovenator santosi was named and described in 2020.[1]
The known remains consist of the holotype SHN.036 - "a partial postcranial skeleton preservingthe odontoid, the atlantal intercentrum, a cervical vertebra, isolated cervical neural spines, dorsal vertebrae, fragments of sacral vertebrae, caudal vertebrae, chevrons, fragments of cervical and dorsal ribs, the right ilium, both pubes, and ischia", thought to represent a juvenile individual - and the neotype SHN.019, "a partial skeleton represented by aseries of articulated caudal vertebrae and an almost complete right pes".[1]
The generic nameLusovenator is derived fromLusitania, the province of theRoman Empire that roughly matches present-day Portugal, affixed with the Latinvenator, meaning "hunter". The specific epithet,santosi, refers to José Joaquim dos Santos, who discovered the remains.[1]
The describers ran a phylogenetic analysis and recoveredLusovenator within the clade Carcharodontosauria, outsideCarcharodontosauridae andNeovenatoridae. Theircladogram is shown below:[1]
Cau (2024) foundLusovenator to be in the familyCarcharodontosauridae, forming a clade withSauroniops,Veterupristisaurus,Eocarcharia, andConcavenator.[4]
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